Nice photos,  they're some phat bombs

Good work,
nice variety of patterns and well tied.
Good photography too mate.  looks like you thought about it a bit.

Some flies are barbed some not, main reason?

Great to see a soft hackle in there, do you fish that year round?

cheers

Good to hear.
I have fished only wee wets and small soft hackle/ emergers etc this summer season just past.
While I did not fish alot, i fished a few good streams, both North and South, and never had a blank session.
I fricken love these types of flies.  Plus I enjoy the method of fishing them.

My pic is a bit slack (Ignore the PT's on the right)


The fly beneath the razor has account for the most fish.
Browns and rainbows, fished in any depth or flow.
Next are the green guys top left with bead, fished through faster water
cheers
damon

you liked that?
Check these out.

Tied from mallard feathers i got on opening weekend.
More for decoration these flies, although i will try them, I don't expect heaps of performance.
All in size 12.

all on size 14

I sometimes get fish having a go at the fly and then dropping off too.
I have found that having a little slack in the tippet helps, but then you run the real risk of missing strikes.

Hey DAD,
I was told something similar by good sources when I announced my season of wee wets ahead.
After a very short amount of time I understood the principle of what was being described.

What you are trying to avoid is the tippet hitting breaking strain right at strike time: EG if your rod tip is down , and the rod direction is the same as the line direction when on the swing, when a fish hits it there is no 'Give" anywhere and you get a bust off.

There are several recommended fixes:  Yours with the loop is Good.
Another is keeping a belly in the line between the rod tip and where the line hits the water.  Keep the rod tip up when on swing or in strike zone, you can see a strike when the belly lifts and straightens.  The belly takes up the tension reducing bust off.

Another way, also in addition to the belly, is simply keeping the rod direction as perpendicular as possible to the line direction when in strike zone.  EG if the line is pointing down stream , the rod should be pointing across stream, that way the rod provides some give at time of strike.

To be honest, this method of fishing has become my GO TO.  it has cost me fish (when I should have been nymphing) but it is bloody addictive.
I have used it up stream, across and also down. in all levels of the water column and it works.

Not sure how effective it will be over winter tho.


(released !)

nothing new in fashion I suppose...
That fish was caught from a wee bit north up the road from you Alan.

What was the date range that you can say the wee wets were "in vogue".
Was there a time for you when this style was Hot?  Ahead of say, nymphing?

cheers
Damon

Nice ties guys. My absolute favourite style on the Tongariro from Oct to April is a wee wet (very similar to Badger's bottom photo) on #16 hook on a 4" - 6" dropper under a humpy or caddis fished across and down. Probably accounts for more than half my catch (and represents about 10% of how I fish) - so its very effective. Its an economical method of fishing (no lost rigs in all the damned snags when fishing the lower reaches, and no weight on the rod (until a fish is on) as opposed to shooting head, or full sink or fast sink tip wet lines. Go the wee wets! 

Look at this idea half way thru the vid to tie in a wing case made of guard hairs and his comment that it increased his strike rate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KctQRtkkxII

I am in the process of tying Czech nymphs but 403BL[size12] Tiemco are rare as hens teeth in NZ.Snagged a packet off the very helpful Markus in Auckland.Google Zak Nymph. It has the clue that I think all nymphs need.In fact it has 3 ideas which I think need to be incorporated. Waiting for an order of 20 freshwater Marlin killers to arrive from Tauranga.Trying to replicate his style is a waste of time.